Full-size pickup trucks are about as American as it gets. If there's one thing we need, and one thing we know how to produce, it's a truck. That's why it's hard to justify buying an imported truck, and sales numbers clearly show that it's a feeling that permeates throughout the American truck-buying market. That's why Toyota pulled out all the stops for the 2014 Tundra refresh, and the result was a big, burly truck that - upon first glance, at least - looked like it could go head to head with the best from the Big Three.

It's no surprise that buyers often compare both new and used cars. For a given price point, the market for potential cars explodes once you start looking away from new cars alone. Yes, you might give up the warranty, but if you're looking for something unique, used cars provide a good value ... provided you pick the right one. Bang for Your Buck takes a look at five used cars you could get with the money you'd spend on the new car we've tested recently.

Scary Movies Burn Calories

Study shows that watching horror movies can help you lose weight.

hy do we like to be frightened? It's a tad counterintuitive—fear isn't generally seen as a positive emotion—but still we voluntarily ride on rollercoasters, visit haunted houses and watch scary movies. All of these are designed to elicit a fear response, and while we try to avoid frightening situations in real life, many of us will gladly pay for the privilege of being frightened under controlled circumstances. Fear gets our juices flowin,' makes our hearts beat faster, and makes us feel alive.

Poster for the Spanish horror film [Rec], which will help you burn 101 calories, although most of those are from reading the subtitles.

Now we have yet another reason to make ourselves feel scared. A study out of the University of Westminster in the UK has shown that watching horror movies actually burns calories.

The researchers had their subjects watch a variety of horror movies while measuring their vital signs: heart rate, oxygen intake, carbon dioxide output, and calories burned.

Not surprisingly, people watching scary movies experienced adrenaline surges and stress, things that burn a high level of calories.

As we creep closer and closer to the Geneva Motor Show, more and more automakers are jumping the gun and dropping tons of information about their upcoming models. One of the more prominent early-releasers is McLaren, which has already given out plenty of details on its upcoming P1 GTR hypercar. Now, the brand is introducing something a bit more subdued, if you could call something with 666 horsepower subdued.

Sure, we all kind of know how a car is built. It starts out life in an assembly plant, some witchcraft happens, and then a fully-built car rolls off the line. It's not terribly often that we get to catch a glimpse into the long process of actually assembling a vehicle. Toyota's over the moon about its new hydrogen-powered Mirai, so the automaker is bringing us inside the plant for a virtual glimpse into how its all-new fuel cell car is built.

Chrysler Group LLC has been accused of concealing a defect in the front suspension of the Dodge Ram pickup that can cause the truck to lose steering control and shimmy excessively.
Now, a class-action law suit involving the iconic truck was trimmed this week by a federal judge in California. Express warranty claims were removed from Shaun et al v. Chrysler Group LLC, although implied warranty and consumer protection claims were left in.